Writer: Pam Dillard, (806) 359-5401, p-dillard@tamu.edu Contact: Bob Robinson, (806) 359-5401, b-robinson@tamu.edu AMARILLO — Cotton harvesting has begun in the Texas Panhandle, with average yields expected in most areas, according to spot checks with county agents with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Briscoe County Extension agent Pammy Millican said some 30,000 acres were planted this…
Writer: Joe Bryant (806) 746-6101 E-mail: J-bryant1@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. David Worrall (940) 552-9941 VERNON–In its 25th anniversary year at Vernon, the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station is releasing a new grazing wheat named in honor of major benefactor. Lockett, a hard red winter wheat, is the result of more than a decade of research to develop…
Contact: Dr. Donald J. Dorsett, (979) 845-2761, d-dorsett@tamu.edu CANTON — The 1997 Texas State Hay Show, the 4-H-FFA Hay Judging Contest and the Texas Forage and Grassland Council annual meeting will be held in Canton Dec. 11-12. An afternoon tour of forage in the Canton area Dec. 11 will show various forage varieties, winter pastures…
Writer: Joe Bryant (806) 746-6101, j-bryant1@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Randy Boman (806) 746-6101, r-boman@tamu.edu LUBBOCK–Cotton growers on the Texas High Plains are crossing their fingers that Mother Nature will keep smiling on them a few more days and they can get their valuable crop harvested in good condition. The 25-county area surrounding Lubbock annually produces around…
COLLEGE STATION — No one likes to eat a tough piece of meat. However, there is no consistent and reliable way of knowing before the first bite whether that piece of meat is tender. Researchers at Texas A&M University are hoping to change that with a new test they are developing. The test measures tenderness…
Writer: Kathleen Davis Phillips, (979) 845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Milton McDaniel, (979) 845-8802 VERNON — A new oat variety with excellent resistance to oat crown rust and stem rust, TAMO 397, is now on the market and available to farmers this year, according to Dale Williams, director of the Texas Foundation Seed Service. “This new…
Writer: Kathleen Davis Phillips, (979) 845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Richard White, (979) 845-3496, rh-white@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION — Ask a high school senior about college plans and the answer is likely to involve medicine, business, computers, law. But a small band of students at Texas A&M University know the grass is greener. They’re turf majors —…
Writer: Joe Bryant (806) 746-6101 E-mail: j-bryant1@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Randy Boman (806) 746-6101 E-mail: r-boman@tamu.edu LUBBOCK–In the race against the clock to harvest the maturing High Plains cotton crop, harvest-aid chemicals can play an important role, says a cotton agronomist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. “Weathering losses in the High Plains can result in…
COLLEGE STATION — The weather has been good for this year’s cotton crop, much unlike the droughty conditions of 1996. The latest estimate places the Texas crop at 5.4 million bales, up from a little over 4.3 million last year, according to Dr. Carl Anderson, agricultural economist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Last year’s…
Writer: Joe Bryant (806) 746-6101, j-bryant1@tamu.edu LUBBOCK — Environmental regulations, the federal food quality act and the roles of biotechnology and computers in today’s food and fiber production will be featured Wednesday (Sept. 24) at the 45th annual West Texas Agricultural Chemicals Conference here. Keynote speaker for the conference at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center…
